Should we travel on?

The big question tonight is: should we leave tomorrow for Wyoming or stay until Friday? The reason is another storm moving into Nebraska from the west on Wednesday night and Thursday, bringing plummeting temps and heavy snow and high winds. The question is should we get as far west as we can tomorrow before it moves in, then wait it out in a motel on Thursday and move on as soon as we can either later Thursday or Friday, or just stay here and let it blow through and leave on Friday. The first option, if it worked, might gain us an extra day or even two in Alpine, but might also entail some blowing-snow-over-the-highway conditions in Wyoming, which is no fun. That's hard to determine in advance from the forecast. The second alternative would be safer, but we would lose the weekend in Alpine, when Paul and Jenny are not working and Max is not in school. So it isn't an easy decision. We'll see how things look in the morning.

Meanwhile, today, we had lunch with Carol Plagge at Alexander's and had a good visit with her. Both Carol and I are both moving sort of gingerly - her because of knee pain and me because of shoulder pain, mostly.  I am better though - especially my hip. I'm actually able to lie on my right side now, which I could not do a week ago. I have cut back significantly on the pain meds.

Alexander's

After lunch, Ellen went to a Swedish shop she likes in Dundee and I stayed at the house researching weather forecasts and also doing some work on the Septuagint. You don't know what the Septuagint is? Well, it all has to do with a doctoral dissertation I wrote 60 years ago and which i am sort of getting back into. Stick with this blog and you will learn more.

We had a nice baked "Chicken Peoria" dinner with M&J tonight and then EM&J watched "old" TV while I listened to a UNC/Boston College BB game on the computer (UNC won after losing their last two games), and tracked the weather again.

I also read an amazing news item about a 4-5th C. Coptic codex of the Book of Acts which was severely damaged in antiquity by a fire and so fragile that no one has dared try to open it  to decipher it, but which has now been scanned by some amazing laser process which can read its pages without opening it. It is an astounding technology which, if successful in this case (they won't know for a few weeks) could "open" countless other damaged MSS.

The ancient codex being scanned